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I have a question. What are the "Services" they refer to in the article? Are these B2B and/or government contracts, the kind which Oracle/IBM are well-known for
by fragsworth 9y ago
I have a question. What are the "Services" they refer to in the article? Are these B2B and/or government contracts, the kind which Oracle/IBM are well-known for?
- _s 9y agoiCloud, iTunes, storage etc I think.
- gxs 9y agoIt's been mentioned that what Google pays apple to keep Google as the default search in Safari is included in this figure. Not sure what percentage that is, but I've seen it mentioned several times. Not sure about what else is included.
- nerfhammer 9y agoSeems like support contracts would also count
- r00fus 9y agoApple doesn't really do B2B in any major fashion that doesn't involve their core product lines. So answer to your question is no.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoGoogle pays Apple for being the default search engine.
- jsjohnst 9y agoThe last time I heard that number leak (admittedly been a while), that was "only" in the single digit billions per year. The services category did $8.5B in the past quarter.
- threeseed 9y agoActually Apple does via the IBM partnership. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Mobile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Mobile
- jimbokun 9y agoApp Store and Apple Music are probably the biggest contributors here.
- BillinghamJ 9y agoApple Pay is also becoming an increasingly notable part of that too I believe.
- probe 9y agoAre they still taking a cut per transaction? I remember they had an arrangement like that with some banks before (but banks weren't happy about it).
- pentae 9y agoiTunes and App store - mostly the 30% IAP tax they take from developers I'd imagine.